TEMPLE ISRAEL 5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, 661-5700. Rabbis: M. Robert Syme, Harold S. Loss, Paul M. Yedwab. Cantor: Harold Orbach. Services: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 10:30 a.m. (Rebbe's Tish 9:30 a.m.), Weekdays 7:30 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m. Rabbi Syme will deliver the sermon. TEMPLE KOL AMI 5085 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloomfield, 661-0040. Rabbis: Norman T. Roman, Rabbi Emeritus: Ernst J. Conrad. Services: Friday 8 P.m. Rabbi Roman will deliver the sermon. Chevrat Torah Study Group will meet on Saturday at 9:15 a.m. TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM 5642 Maple, West Bloomfield, 737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz. Services: Saturday 11 a.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. Rabbi's Tish. CONGREGATION SHIR TIKVAH 3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services: Saturday: 7:45 p.m. Services will be conducted by Sandy Walker with Torah reading by Sandy Green. P PERATION ROMISED LAND 5 things the Jewish National Fund will NOT DO for Israel's new Russian Immigrants: • I • II • • • • • es p • Build schools Build new housing Build absorption centers E Build health clinics R' Build industries HUMANISTIC: THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE 28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T. Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m. RECONSTRUCTIONIST: T'CHIYAH 1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit, 393-1089. Services: Saturday 10 a.m. Services conducted by Ellen Dannin and Nita Lowe. UNAFFILIATED: SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY OF GREATER DETROIT 15751 W. Lincoln. Southfield. 557-8551. `TORAH PORTION 1 The Balance Between Ritual And Ethics SHLOMO RISKIN Special to The Jewish News T o this day the Tisha B'Av fast remains the saddest day of the Jewish year. Despite our sovereignty over Jerusalem, the Temple has still not been rebuilt, and a Jerusalem where the Temple area is for- bidden to Jewish masses (lest there be a violent reaction from the Moslem worshippers free to walk where they please) means that there is still much to mourn. But ex- actly what are we mourning for? A building, a concept, a shortcut to the heart of God? The haftara selection for this week's portion, Devarim, is the last of three haftaras preceding the fast day. Two of the haftaras are from Jere- miah, the prophet who actu- ally lived through two sieges of Jerusalem, and this week — the third — is from Isaiah, chosen by the sages to be read immediately before the Ninth of Av as a beacon of insight in- to why the Temple was destroyed. Indeed, this Sab- bath is called Shabbat Hazon (the Sabbath of the vision) after the first word of the haftara. We read how Isaiah merci- lessly addresses the Jewish people: "Hear the word of the Lord, rulers of Sodom, give ear to the Torah of our God, you people of Gomorrah. To Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is chief rabbi of Efrat, Israel, and is dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel. what purpose is the multi- tude of your sacrifices to me? . . . I'm sated with the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of Iambs, or of he-goats. . . . Bring no more vain offerings, incense of abomination they are to me; as for the new moons and Sabbaths and the calling of assemblies, I cannot bear iniquity along with solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates . . . your hands are full of blood .. . Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your do- ings from before my eyes; cease to do evil. Learn to do well; seek justice; relieve the oppressed, judge the father- less, plead for the widow . . ." These seven verses, although but a fragment of Isaiah's words, capture the essence of prophetic sensibility, as well as alluding to the age-long tension between prophet and priest: Long before the checks-and-balances of a democratic government, Ju- daism had its own built-in system for maintaining a bal- ance between the awesomely exact ritual requirements in the Holy Temple and an ethi- cal spirit which saw itself as the spearhead of liberty and justice extending from the particular out toward the universal. The prophets, not the priests, stood alone as they raged against the sins of the _ people, especially when the sins took on a veneer of reli- gious respectability which the ONE THING THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND WILL DO: Prepare the land for all of the above. JNF is accelerating its land reclamation activities in Israel's Galilee, Jerusalem and Negev regions to accommodate thousands of Russian Jewish immigrants. Help us develop the land at this crucial time. 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